Name: 2 Contemporary Organ Works - organ solos by Phil Beaman Organ Digital Sheet Music
Brand: Phil Beaman
Price: 8.99 USD
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Title 2 Contemporary Organ Works - organ solos

Artist Phil Beaman

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Composer Phil Beaman

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 12

Arrangement Organ

Publisher Phil Beaman

Level 4

Product ID 1773906

Genre Sacred Contemporary 20th Century

Instruments Organ

Product Description

2 Contemporary Organ Works contains Lament and From Here to Eternity.
The first Organ Solo is a dramatic Lament of impassioned sadness and agony. It is in the
Phrygian mode with extended compound minor chords. It has constant mood swings
from solo clarinet melodic lines of melancholy to thunderous thick chords and back again
with bridges of mourning and wailing. The Pedal line is either a drone, or a throbbing
pulse, or a descending chromatic line. The style is my own flavor of 20th Century
Expressionism. This piece has all of the emotion for a powerful Lenten service or a
haunting Halloween concert or a contemporary piece for a recital.
The second Organ Solo From Here to Eternity is a contemporary organ solo using hollow
open chords and mild dissonance to explore themes of seeing the vastness of the
cosmos and contemplating our place in it. The themes are varied and short and have
simple frequent registration changes between flutes and strings. It shifts back and forth
between time signatures of 4/4 and 6/4. Much of the piece is in triplet patterns (with
some sextuplets). Suitable for Service Music or Concert.
On the audio recording, Lament was recorded live on a million dollar pipe organ, and 10
seconds later on the track From Here to Eternity is temporarily a MIDI recording which
does not realize registration changes. You need good speakers or Lament will have spans of silence where low pedal solo notes are not picked up.
Lament, 8:15 minutes; From Here to Eternity, 6:05 minutes; over 14 minutes of music
total
12 pages or 6 pages double sided
These two pieces are also published on this site separately

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